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Great Britain put a tax on all newspapers, legal and commercial documents.
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Great Britain regulates colonial trade and levies new taxes on colonists.
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Two acts by British Parliament in the colonies of America that forces colonists to provide housing for British soldiers
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Nine british soldiers open fire on a crowd, killing five and injuring six unarmed colonists.
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Great Britain puts taxes on all of the tea people brought.
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70 men boarded British ships in the Boston harbor and threw boxes of tes into the sea in rebellion of the tax on tea.
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A series of punitive laws passes by British Parliment in 1774 to control rebellions in the collonies (after the Boston Tea PArty)
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The battle of Lexington was the battle that started the American Revolutionary War.
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The first great battle of the Revolutionary War, fought near Boston
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Document drafted in 1776 to proclaim the rights of men, including the right to rebel against inadequate government.
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The Declarartion of Independence is adopted by United States Congress.
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This marked as the turning point of the American REvolution
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The United States and Francesign the French alliance which promised military support in case of attack by British soldiers in the future.
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General Cornwallis accepts terms of surrender. Armed forces continued, but the war was practically over.
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On this day the Untied States and Great Britain signed the Treaty of Paris and ended the American Revolution.
